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Hi,
Cool new look for the site!
If any of you don't remember me I have posted a few times about my situation with being on disability and medicaid. I posted that i was recently told my the Practice Manager at the pain clinic I go to that because Medicaid "pays for nothing" I will not be getting the proper treatment that I need to be well.

This to me is unacceptable and unethical. This has really been bothering me and I feel I need to step up and do something. I had to stay home today due to pain so I thought I would do some research. First of all I began working at my part time job in 2002. I immediately lost my SSI which I figured was fair since I would be working. I have however recently printed out the 2008 red book from Social Security for disabled working people and there are cases when people work and have SSD and SSI. I want to find out if I was dropped unfairly. I'm sure I need a lawyer but can't afford one So I am trying to do as much on my own as I can.

I am also trying to obtain as many of my medical records as I can for as far back as I can. I would like to prove that I have attempted to find help for my pain and depression for almost 20 years. It is true that our health care system is in a shambles but I do not think this should allow doctors and other professionals to neglect and outright ignore patient health issues. My records would show that I have been passed off from doctor to doctor.

In short this is the deal: I am on disability (which is not enough to get by) I have to work and can only work part time. My disability is getting worse due to lack of proper treatment. I can barely work anymore.

I asking everyone on here to chime in and give me you thoughts, ideas, etc as to where I should start.

I have also posted this on a fibromyalgia forum I belong to. just trying to get as many ideas as I can.
Thanks

Hi,
Cool new look for the site!
If any of you don't remember me I have posted a few times about my situation with being on disability and medicaid. I posted that i was recently told my the Practice Manager at the pain clinic I go to that because Medicaid "pays for nothing" I will not be getting the proper treatment that I need to be well.

This to me is unacceptable and unethical. This has really been bothering me and I feel I need to step up and do something. I had to stay home today due to pain so I thought I would do some research. First of all I began working at my part time job in 2002. I immediately lost my SSI which I figured was fair since I would be working. I have however recently printed out the 2008 red book from Social Security for disabled working people and there are cases when people work and have SSD and SSI. I want to find out if I was dropped unfairly. I'm sure I need a lawyer but can't afford one So I am trying to do as much on my own as I can.

I am also trying to obtain as many of my medical records as I can for as far back as I can. I would like to prove that I have attempted to find help for my pain and depression for almost 20 years. It is true that our health care system is in a shambles but I do not think this should allow doctors and other professionals to neglect and outright ignore patient health issues. My records would show that I have been passed off from doctor to doctor.

In short this is the deal: I am on disability (which is not enough to get by) I have to work and can only work part time. My disability is getting worse due to lack of proper treatment. I can barely work anymore.

I asking everyone on here to chime in and give me you thoughts, ideas, etc as to where I should start.

I have also posted this on a fibromyalgia forum I belong to. just trying to get as many ideas as I can.
Thanks

Hi everyone,
I have been having a really hard time and this feels like the only place I can ever find peace. If you've read my posts you know my story and that I'm In kind of a crappy situation. Recently I had some problems at the pain clinic I go to which resulted in me having to call administration because I am so tired of being kicked around by these so called doctors.

The one nurse I have seen twice treated me like I was a piece of garbage and didn't even care what happened to me. She really should not even be a nurse.

The woman in administration I spoke with was very nice but she did tell me flat out that because i am on medicaid, and they pay for nothing, I won't be able to get any beneficial treatments for my pain. I told her, and she agreed, that even if this is so I should not have to be treated like that.

This has been going on for most of my life and I always knew it was because of medicaid. I just never had a person in a position such as hers (head of nursing practices) Tell me that in such a matter-of-fact way. I thanked her for being honest but I really feel like I don't see any point in trying anymore.

I have exhausted all my possibilities as far as I can see and all of my energy. I'm very low right now and feeling like nothing really matters.

My attempts at starting my own business never get off the ground regardless of how much work I put in. I can hardly function at my job anymore. I can't sleep. The pain is so bad that I want to destroy things...anything...and my shrink is a moron.

I have no idea what to do next. I have already gone to school, got a degree,but It's getting to the point where I can't do that work anymore. I have been playing phone tag with a case worker for two weeks now. I have conflicting letters from disability. One says I am ok, the other says they are cutting me off...there are five of these letters and no reply from the person I was told to call. I had to write a letter to the office asking for them to explain. Sent it last week.. still no reply.

I live in limbo. I would really like to be able to see the positive side of any of this never ending bullcrap!!!!!

I am pretty much the only one in my whole family that didn't turn to drugs and alcohol to cope but I wonder what difference it really makes anymore.

I just needed to vent

Thanks guys

hi, im really glad i found this forum, and pardon if my first post is really blunt, but im in a tight rope and feel hopeless, its something i have a really hard time telling anyone about. Ive been using abusing drugs for the past 15 yrs as a somewhat functional addict. Ive tried 12-steps programs, 3 short rehabs cut short due to lack of funds , and have continually failed, 9 months was my longest sober time. Ive given it everything i had, even sharing what i write here, but ive always felt alone regardless.

Im at the mercy of a mutual cocaine/crack -sex/porn addiction that is destroying me, one doesnt go without the other. At the beginning of using/experimenting i experienced sex with cocaine and was so overwhelmed by it, that till this day it haunts me and persuades me to repeat the process over and over again. And to be honest i love it, but the behaviors and the after effects are really turning my life into dust, its such a big easy lie which i fall mysteriously for everytime, i feel like ive become some primitive animal, and i know im not i have alot going for me when sober for even a short time. My relationships have suffered, along with career and all the other things going down the tubes. Ive tried seeking professional counseling, but everything is so expensive, and it seems no ne really cares, gives time if you dont have funds, and opening up to someone at meetings about this is really really hard, people dont like to get into deep topics, "keep coming back." is all too common. I dont have insurance and as everyone knows medicaid doesnt cover anything real, except a shrink who's quick to dispense prozacs or the like. This is my problem and i have a hard time finding anyone who is fimiliar with this, and what people with similar issues have done to find help, im willing to give anything to change. I want a life, a family, a real relationship not a superficial one with a porn mag, a gram, and a hotel room, and the crash with the sun coming up. Deep stuff i know, but its real, and its taking my life. If anyone could recommend something please suggest anything relevant...Im a very open, willing, trying to be honest individual, yet i have some issues with AA/NA, and sometimes have a really hard time believing that i was born with an incurable disease, i really admire many of the lessons learned from AA/NA, but also believe that everyone is unique and that there exists more than one solution to a problem. please feel free to ask me any question or dissect what im saying, maybe my answers can shed light on something too. At this point i dont care in how far ill share, i wish i had the same confidence in other places.. thank you...

I have been in recovery for 20 years and I understand that addiction is a disease. I also understand that there is a solution to addiction. The solution is outlined clearly in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and the book is clear that in order to recover the addict/alcoholic must WORK, put in the effort, be willing to go to any length, and basically change everything.

It's tough medicine, but it's a solution that works.

I can understand the addict/alcoholic who doesn't know the solution and hasn't worked it and yet still keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over, but the chronic relapser knows better. He or she has seen that the solution does indeed work. I am struggling with how to make peace with chronic and perpetual relapse behavior. These people know what they need to do, but for some reason refuse to "take their medicine."

In the meantime they run havoc over people's lives. They stress our public assistance programs, our prisons, our treatment facilities. They steal from law-abiding tax-paying citizens; they manipulate the courts and families and promise they will never do it again. Many are on SSI, some sort of Medicaid; some just live off family members. Few are capable of sustaining any kind of employment. Many drink/drug and drive and have suspended licenses, no insurance, but wonÂ’t put the EFFORT and WORK into even using public transportation. Many fail to use inadequate family planning methods and have children who are abused and who stand a good chance of falling victim to this illness. These parents can't support themselves, let alone their children.

If they "worked it," they could get better. I find it unconscionable that they won't work it. Yes, the addict/alcoholic is out of control once he or she takes the first drink, hit, etc, and the Big Book states that the addict/alcoholic has no defense against this first drink. BUT, that defense is built by working the program of action. The action is the medicine, yet these people either stop taking their "medicine" after the course of treatment, or don't finish the program of action in order to get the spiritual experience. They make the choice to pick up. It’s a conscious choice, and it’s saying, “I won’t WORK. I won’t take my medicine.”

Are these the ones who, as the book says, "are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves?" What do we do? Just let them run havoc? Rob and assault us and then feel sorry for them and say they have a “brain disease” and then throw more money into SSI, Medicaid, long-term residential treatment, et al? How many must these people harm until society says “no more?” I live in a community where these "unfortunates" seem to be more the rule than the exception, and I am tired of them.

Yes, I'm angry and I know for my recovery I need to quiet that anger, which this post is helping me do, and for my recovery I will work the program of action and work through this anger. I will do what I must do, put forth whatever WORK is necessary.

If only they would do the WORK.

I have been in recovery for 20 years and I understand that addiction is a disease. I also understand that there is a solution to addiction. The solution is outlined clearly in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and the book is clear that in order to recover the addict/alcoholic must WORK, put in the effort, be willing to go to any length, and basically change everything.

It's tough medicine, but it's a solution that works.

I can understand the addict/alcoholic who doesn't know the solution and hasn't worked it and yet still keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over, but the chronic relapser knows better. He or she has seen that the solution does indeed work. I am struggling with how to make peace with chronic and perpetual relapse behavior. These people know what they need to do, but for some reason refuse to "take their medicine."

In the meantime they run havoc over people's lives. They stress our public assistance programs, our prisons, our treatment facilities. They steal from law-abiding tax-paying citizens; they manipulate the courts and families and promise they will never do it again. Many are on SSI, some sort of Medicaid; some just live off family members. Few are capable of sustaining any kind of employment. Many drink/drug and drive and have suspended licenses, no insurance, but wonÂ’t put the EFFORT and WORK into even using public transportation. Many fail to use adequate family planning methods and have children who are abused and who stand a good chance of falling victim this illness. These parents can't support themselves, let alone their children.

If they "worked it," they could get better. I find it unconscionable that they won't work it. Yes, the addict/alcoholic is out of control once he or she takes the first drink, hit, etc, and the Big Book states that the addict/alcoholic has no defense against this first drink. BUT, that defense is built by working the program of action. The action is the medicine, yet these people either stop taking their "medicine" after the course of treatment, or don't finish the program of action in order to get the spiritual experience. They make the choice to pick up. It’s a conscious choice, and it’s saying, “I won’t WORK. I won’t take my medicine.”

Are these the ones who, as the book says, "are constitutionally incapable of being honest with themselves?" What do we do? Just let them run havoc? Rob and assault us and then feel sorry for them and say they are a “brain disease” and then throw more money into SSI, Medicaid, long-term residential treatment, et al? How many must these people harm until society says “no more?” I live in a community where these "unfortunates" seem to be more the rule than the exception, and I am tired of them.

Yes, I'm angry and I know for my recovery I need to quiet that anger, which this post is helping me do, and for my recovery I will work the program of action and work through this anger. I will do what I must do, put forth whatever WORK is necessary.

If only they would do the WORK.